EPTThe Morality of Ad-Blocking - Page 3
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
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dakalro
Romania525 Posts
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deathly rat
United Kingdom911 Posts
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Aylear
Norway3988 Posts
On September 05 2011 17:22 SpoR wrote: I've been adblocking since netzero. It was funny too because the ad used to show while in an SC BW game haha. And your free hours per month were timed within the banner so bannerzapper not only blocked the shitty ad but it extended your monthly limit lol That's brilliant, haha! I also turn off AdBlocker for TL.net and other sites I want to support. Honestly, I wish I didn't have to use the blocker at all, and if they all were as unobtrusive as the one on TL.net, I definitely wouldn't. But they aren't. They almost invariably suck. Hard. Half of them are so insulting that I feel angry when I look at them. The rest flash brightly, impossible to ignore. There are good sites with well-written articles where it's impossible to actually peruse their content because some ad in the middle of the page is going, HEY! HEY! What are you doing?! LOOK AT ME! I CAN STAND ON MY HEAD!!!!!! PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS Chances are, if you read my post, or even skimmed through the rest of this page, your eyes were immediately drawn to the red penis. And that's why I block the fuckers. But by far the biggest reason I use AdBlocker is for the same reason that I use Mozilla Firefox: Because nothing else will stop my streams from playing advertisements that are 38 times louder than the actual stream content. That shit is illegal on TV for a reason. I don't always mute my TV or change the channel whenever ads come on (mostly because I can't be arsed), but most of the time, for streams or internet channels, it's not even an option. Most ads you can't even mute in the window, and you can't volume control them. That shit has got to go. You hijack and monopolize my sound card to engage in ear rape in order to sell me insults and shoddy products? Fuck you, and eat my NoScript. | ||
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Ho0ps
United Kingdom216 Posts
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
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Khenra
Netherlands885 Posts
I'll support esports when I feel like it, for example by buying a GSL ticket. But I'm not going to deal with fucking ads. No way. | ||
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Aelonius
Netherlands432 Posts
I don't think stealing is the right word, as you're on public domain, with a public website, offering information on a "free' medium. The only way to make it stealing is if you make the website locked down and paid access. That said, I will definatly think about allowing TL's ads, once I figure out which ad-carrier they use. | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
TL ad's are entirely non intrusive so I really don't mind them. | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10340 Posts
On September 07 2011 08:41 Aelonius wrote: I disagree with the part of stealing. i basicly block all ads due to the uncertainty of the methods used to display them, seeing a lot of them give out way too much information of me to the creator of this banner. I don't think stealing is the right word, as you're on public domain, with a public website, offering information on a "free' medium. The only way to make it stealing is if you make the website locked down and paid access. That said, I will definatly think about allowing TL's ads, once I figure out which ad-carrier they use. If you're concerned with privacy, almost all the "legit" ad providers are part of the Network Advertising Initiative. You can opt-out of any tracking at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp You should also consider disallowing 3rd party cookies in your browser as this blocks the majority of cross-site tracking mechanisms. Note that this is only possible in FireFox, Google apparently don't want you doing this  . | ||
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